Le Concert Des Nations - Haydn: The Creation [CD]

Jodi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nation in Haydn's The Creation. The composer confessed that while composing he had "felt an extraordinary religious fervor". However, this work was also inspired by the spirituality of the Viennese Masonic lodges of his day. It is above all the first secular oratorio, in the sense that it's message is addressed to all mankind, exactly like The Magic Flute, in operati